#86 Bruce Whitfield - Radio Host and Author

11/03/21 • 45 min

Bruce Whitfield is a multiple award-winning financial journalists whose work on radio, television and print give them unique access to some of the biggest power brokers in the business and money. He also presents The Money Show on 702 and CapeTalk, hosts Taking Stock, a weekly TV show on eNCA, and is a Contributing Editor for Financial Mail.
Bruce has developed the ability to tell compelling stories about the political economy in a way that is creative and engaging. He is also a sought-after public speaker, MC and conference facilitator.

In this episode, Alex MacPhail talks to Bruce Whitfield about his book ‘The Upside of Down: How Chaos and Uncertainty Breed Opportunity in South Africa’, published by Pan Macmillan reflects the optimistic realism of his popular keynotes.Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions. Send me your comments.

ALEX MACPHAIL
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Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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BRUCE WHITFIELD
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/bruce-whitfield-42448738
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brucebusiness
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brucebusiness
Website: http://brucewhitfield.com
The Money Show with Bruce Whitfield - 702: https://www.702.co.za/shows/9/the-money-show-with-bruce-whitfield

Books by Bruce Whitfield
~The Upside of Down: How Chaos and Uncertainty Breed Opportunity in South Africa.Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Down-Uncertainty-Opportunity-Africa-ebook/dp/B08TZZKL24/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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#85 Mike Ling - Red Arrows & Blades Aerobatic Team

At 3 years old Mike Ling attended an airshow at Biggin Hill and told his mum that he wanted to be a Red Arrows pilot. Fast forward 20 odd years and he became a Red Arrows pilot and not only that he spent the better part of a decade on the team and in various different roles,
Mike left the Royal Air Force in April 2019 as a Squadron Leader after 21 years of service. He has since become a commercial pilot, flight instructor and a full-time member of the Blades Aerobatic Team, the world’s only 'aerobatic airline' and part of 2Excel Aviation. Mike is the proud patron of two aviation charities; Fly2Help and the Nick Davidson Memorial Flying Scholarship Trust that help provide funding for young aviators to get their Private Pilots Licence.
Alex MacPhail and Mike Ling unpack the complexities of a high-risk operation and how you manage things that go wrong. They also share a fascinating story about how Mike had a mid-air collision where two aircraft flying head-to-head at a closing speed of about 1,000 km an hour, struck each other and the tale of the one went through the canopy of the other.
Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions. Send me your comments.
ALEX MACPHAIL
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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alexmacphailpodcast MIKE LING
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeLingPilot
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikelingpilot/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikelingpilot
Website: https://www.mikelingpilot.com/
Fly2Help - Website: https://nickdavidsonflyingtrust.org.uk/
Nick Davidson Memorial Flying Scholarship Trust: https://nickdavidsonflyingtrust.org.uk/

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#87 Maurizio Cheli - Astronaut & Test Pilot

Would you like to know what it's like to become an astronaut? Do you want to know what it's like for an astronaut for that first blast off into space, to be in space and what it's like to see Earth rotating around every 90 minutes you’ve orbited the Earth?
Maurizio Cheli is a lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA Space Shuttle mission. Maurizio joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1992 and was then sent to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston where he would train as a Mission Specialist, who is effectively the flight engineer of the space shuttle. In 1996 he attended the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-75 Tethered Satellite mission, to be the first Italian to assume the role of Mission Specialist.
During the expedition, while he was flying over our planet, he took a picture of Mount Everest and since then, he always desired to reach that peak, and so he did: after having seen the world from above, in 2018 he even reached the “top of the world. For more than 10 years he has displayed the Eurofighter at the Paris Air Show and he's built his own aeroplanes too. He is an entrepreneur in the aviation industry and a speaker. Maurizio is sought to cover topics such as passion, teamwork, change management, decision making, sustainability and more.
Alex MacPhail and Maurizio Cheli go into detail about what it is to become an astronaut, what it is like to train for missions, what the launch looks like with the feelings of the acceleration and the g-forces at operating these machines.
If you like anything to do with fast aeroplanes or space, this is the conversation for you.
Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions. Send me your comments.
ALEX MACPHAIL
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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MAURIZIO CHELI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mauriziocheli/
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/maurizio-cheli-2a690b10
Website: http://www.mauriziocheli.com/en/